[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] changes to Chat to support OSK and portrait mode

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
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> walter.bender at gmail.com said:
>> (2) The chat is displayed from the top (most recent) down so that the recent
>> messages are not occluded by the OSK and so that the recent messages are
>> proximal to the text entry
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> How well does that work out?  How long does it take to learn to read
> bottom-to-top?  I'd expect troubles if you were distracted for a few lines
> and then tried to catch up.
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> Is that only for XO-4 or will people with non-touch XOs have to learn to read
> backwards too?

I suppose we could make it specific to tablet modes... but maybe try
it to see if you really think it is difficult.

-walter
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> (Is there a word for backwards up/down vs backwards right/left?)
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